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Hello and welcome to Episode 2071 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Bandgraphs presented by R.P. Trion supporters.

I am Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fan Graphs. Hello, Meg.

Hello.

Well, you were present at the Dodgers Demise. So give us a report from the scene of the Dodgers Demise or the Diamondvex sweep dust mop.

Whatever we're calling it.

Yeah, I mean, like, look, we got to talk about the Dodgers of it all. You know, the discourse demands that the ants are bent.

But we should not. I think lose sight of what the Diamondvex were able to achieve here because that's pretty cool.

But maybe we can start with the Dodgers because, you know, we're going to be talking about them a little bit less in the coming weeks.

Because as you noted there, they have been swept on out of the postseason with a showing that I think they would agree was not their best.

Some of their players used towards like embarrassing to describe it.

Not the most unfamiliar sensation for them to exit the playoffs in this way.

But this was particularly a rude awakening, I suppose.

It's not what you want if you are a fan of the Dodgers or are affiliated with the organization.

I mean, I think that, you know, as I was trying to make sense of what happened, you know, much of the attention.

And, you know, I'm about to do the same is focused on the starting pitching and what it was able to muster or not really as the case may be.

Not only in this start by Lance Lynn, but in their earlier starts that we already discussed.

And that, you know, that has a, I think, a big place in this conversation.

Dodgers starters only managed 4.2 innings of work in this series.

They had a 25.07 ERA as a trio.

The bullpen actually performed pretty well.

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